Three Indians who should face Arnab Goswami

Three Indians who should face Arnab Goswami

Our heartfelt condolences to Congress party and its 'not-so-bright' scion Rahul Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi's debut television interview has done more harm than good for the party and its image, but has surely benefitted the nation and its voters. Ask how? Well, Rahul Gandhi's painfully dumb debut on Times Now's Frankly Speaking bought to fore the dim-wit Gandhi heir, who was being so far hailed as the future of India. The interview just made us all realize that a silent prime minister is certainly better than a dumb one.

This led us to imagine what a watch-worthy face-off it would be if certain other controversial figures made it to the newsman's hot seat. We take a guess.

Sonia Gandhi



It took Rahul Gandhi a decade to give a one-on-one interview on national television, and he bungled it up for sure. We wonder how the political matriarch Sonia Gandhi would fare on the hot seat against Arnab Goswami.

Asaram Bapu



Last time we wrote something about Godman Asaram Bapu, we faced a barrage of angry backlash from his followers. So we wonder about how Arnab Goswami will deal with this god-man - with all the allegations and charges against him, and more importantly, how Asaram will respond to these and justify his actions!

Rakhi Sawant



With her histrionics and controversial statements, this drama queen will set the studio on fire if ever there was a face-off with Arnab Goswami. If Rakhi's big mouth ran off in the wrong direction, then none can stop Arnab from breaking the sets with his wrath.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury

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After Rahul, it's time for Modi to face Arnab Goswami - will he?

After Rahul, it's time for Modi to face Arnab Goswami - will he?

Rahul Gandhi, the young Congress vice-president not only shushed some of his detractors by giving his first television interview in 10 years of his active political career, batting some straight questions from Times Now's Arnab Goswami (pouting answers that contained little substance whatsoever), but also marked a beginning of a media blitz that has brought him under the arclights like never before.

And now, the Congress party is left with the tough job of vindicating their future PM's guile, unintelligibility, and plain lack of confidence (read the repetitive, pre-meditated, unconvincing, evasive answers that Rahul gave even when questions were specific). The hour-plus interview saw the anchor hurl a volley of crucial questions at Rahul that not only made him fib and fidget with discomfiture, but also revealed how this well-intentioned politician is torn between sharp divergence of his troubled inheritance, dynastic expectations and underlying beliefs.

The big interview has now become the butt of all national jokes and  is likely to botch up Rahul Gandhi's chances or make people queue up in large numbers at the polling stations to vote for the Congress in the upcoming elections.

At a time when Mr Gandhi  is finding himself sandwiched between two political behemoths — Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal — who have the grabbed the initiative and left the Congress looking leaden-footed and resigned to woeful election returns, his chances of catapulting the party by the bootstraps and making it believe it can win, or at least get to a position where it can exert some influence in the 16th Lok Sabha seems bleak.

Now only another cogent and powerful interview by Rahul Gandhi can possibly salvage some of the damages, we believe.

One takeaway for the BJP: Whatever the verdict on Rahul Gandhi, at least, he agreed to be grilled in full public view. Now it's left to be seen if Narendra Modi — a consummate performer when addressing mass rallies —  will allow media interviewers to put him on the hot seat? If so, where his frank talk with Arnab Goswami would lead him? The nation speculates.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury